Insecticide or fungicide compound.



LOUIS A. RUIZ, OF NEW INSECTICIDE OR FUNGICIIDE COMPOUND.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patgnted Aug, 9 1911, Application filed January 20, 191;). sea; n. 539,182.,

To all whom it may concern,

Be it known that 1, ROBERT H. HUTGHIN- son, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Insecticide or F'ungicide Compound, of which the following -1s.- ,a=.

fore employed as insecticides and fungicides, but, so far as I am aware, none has been known which would have any degree of permanency, or which could not be quickly washed from the trees by rain, or otherwise rendered of no effect throughthe influence of the weather. The compounds heretofore employed, so far as I am aware, have had no penetrating, spreading, clinging, or staying qualities, so that those parasites which were not destroyed upon the application of the compound, would find settling places upon the trees or fruit and continue their work of destruction. The same object-ions {apply to the attacks of a later brood subsequent to the application of the compound. Other compounds which have been used for the purpose of destroying these obnoxious parasites have been exceedingly objectionable for the reason that they were injurious to the trees, or else were too expensive for use or disagreeable to handle, or became dry and hard as the moisture in them evaporated.

' It is the object of my invention to produce a compound for the stated purpose l which, when applied to the tree, will spread over the same so as to fill all the crevices of the bark, and which will not be readily removed through the action of rain or other elements, and which may be manufactured at a comparatively slight cost, and which, when added to water, will form an emulsion which may be easily sprayed upon the trees Various compositions have been heretoand will thoroughly destroy all insect or fungous life.

In carrying out my asv a base for the-compound, crude-wool grease obtained and freed from the wash waters in the cleansing of wool fleece, that isfto say, when such fleece has been cleansed with soap and water, the original soap stock being recovered with the wool grease by a process of introducing sulfuric acid into the wash waters. This soap stock or fatty acids may be resaponified, though the -major portion of the grease thus obtained 'is unsaponifiable.

The grease from wool fleece'washed with soda alone, or the grease from the fleece obtained by dissolving the same with naphtha, does not give the desired product for the purpose of my invention, because the wool grease thus obtained containsv n9 fatty acids or soap stock. With this wool grease is combined a suitable poison, arsenic, for instance, which added in the form or arsenate or arsenite. To this mixture is then added lime and sulfur boiled together in water in suitable proportions, according to whether the resulting solution is desired to be weak or concentrated. The mixture of the solution of the calcium sulfid, thiosulfate, and other sulfosalts of calcium thus prepared, with the emulsified wool grease is accomplished by beating the former into the latter, a large amount is taken up and a paste-likeproduct of about the consistency of soft soap is formed. When the compound is to be used, the necessary quantity is mixed with water and a permanent emulsion is thereby produced, which may be readily sprayed upon the trees or plants, and which will permanently adhere thereto; the water acting as a vehicle to convey the compound to the tree, etc., and the wool grease serving as a base or medium for holding the poison on the tree or plant.'

Boiled lime and sulfur is a well-known insecticide, but as heretofore used, the water evaporates from it and the calcium sulfid,

etc., dries and does not spread over the tree,

invention, I employ nently retained around or on the tree, etc., sothat the latter will be immune and may develop perfect fruit.

I prepare my compound as follows: 800 pounds of crude wool grease, obtained from the cleaning ofthe fleeces of sheep, as hereinbefore stated, and known to the trade of this country as degras, is'mixed in an iron or other vessel with 125 pounds of soda ash (or carbonate of sodium) and 125 gallons of water, and heated, with occasional or continual agitation, until such saponification as takes place is complete and the mixture ceases to foam and becomes tran-' quil. To this is then added a suitable poison, preferably arsenic, in the form of an arsenate or arsenite, in the proportions of about three parts by weight of the arsenic salt to thirteen parts of water, and thirtyfive gallons of this solution are agitated with the above mentioned prepared wool grease. While the mixture is moderately warm, I next intermix 73 gallons of a solution of calcium sulfid containing thiosulfate and other sulfo-salts of calcium. This may be either purchased onthe market or repared by boiling about one part by weight of lime and two-and-a-half parts of sulfur, together in water, and concentrating the liquid until it acquires a density of 33 to 34 degrees Baum. v v

Saponification of what is saponifiable in the wool greaseis advisable in order to produce a better poison-carrying medium.

The poison and the calcium sulfid solution may be if desired mixed together, and then incorporated with the treated wool grease.

My compound mixes easily with water, making an emulslon s milar 1n some respects to an oil emulsion, but it has an advantage to the tree, etc., so that it will not readily wash away or. become dry, and yet being sticky will remain and hold the oison in suspension and in place indefinltely. In my compound the wool grease makes an emulsion with soap or a fatty acid and an alkali, which is unlike any other emulsion, for it retains in suspension an unsaponifiable fat which, when freed from soap suds and moisture by evaporation, is a sticky substance that holds indefinitely any poison that has been mixed with it. 1

I expressly disclaim the use of lanolin, as it is not an-equivalent of wool grease in this connection, since it will not give the desired results, because itiwill not emulsify when water is added.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1; A compound for the purpose set forth consistingof 1 saponified wool grease, a poison, and a mixture of calcium sulfid and other calcium salts produced by boiling lime and sulfur together in water and concentrating the liquor.

2. A compound for the purpose set forth, consisting, of saponified wool grease, a salt of arsenic and a mixture of calcium sulfid and other calcium salts produced by boiling lime and sulfur together in water and concentrating the liquor.

3. A compound for the purpose set: forth including saponified wool grease and a poison destructive to insectivorous and fungous life.

4. A compound for the purpose set forth including saponified wool grease containing an unsaponifiable fat, and a poison destructive to insectivorous and fungous life.

5. A compound for the purpose set forth including wool grease in part saponified and in part unsaponifiable, the unsaponifiable portion being in excess of the saponified portion, and a poison destructive to insectivorous life.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT H. HUTCHINSON.

Witnesses:

WESTMINSTER ABBEY, JULIUs P. Moon. 

